shunning

How To Use shunning In A Sentence

• The cats would be livid, showing their displeasure by sulkily shunning their food and refusing to climb into bed for a goodnight cuddle. SANDS OF TIME
• But Cambodians voted with their wallets, shunning the Cambodian riel and demanding dollars. The Cambodian Case for Dollarization
• Earth has burrowed into itself, shunning space exploration for centuries, walling itself away from nature and other planets in enclosed cities that people are terrified to leave. Interplanetary Manifest Destiny
• Investors have also been shunning the bonds issued by big lenders, amid fears that they will not get their money back. Times, Sunday Times
• His shunning of the rest for the more difficult shots demonstrated a confidence not normal for such an arena, while he went for pots where mere mortals would have sought safety sanctuary.
• But my simple shunning of her had given the lesser folk of the keep permission to be cruel and callous to her. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
• Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast. Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider
• Here is Marx the future socialist, unsocially shunning his school fellows while his mental acrobatics charm Ludwig von Westphalen, a much older man of a much higher social position.
• ↑ This practice is usually referred to as shunning, but because Bahá'ís can conduct business transactions with Covenant breakers, the practice is not same as shunning by Amish and some other groups, which is total. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• She believes shunning the aguayo would be like ignoring the family's indigenous roots. NPR Topics: News